Platform Grant: Electromagnetic analysis, modelling and simulation

Principal Investigator: Professor C Christopoulos

Starts: 1 August 2002
Ends: 31 July 2006

Value: £380,321

The Platform Grant is intended to support the activities of the Electromagnetics Research Group (ERG) at Nottingham University. ERG covers a wide range of analysis and simulation techniques in electromagnetics (Transmission-Line Modelling, Integral Equation Method, Beam Propagation Method, Free Space Radiation Method) and applications (photonics, electromagnetic compatibility, signal integrity). A major theme is the exploitation of the synergies between these areas to achieve major advances. The combination of different approaches (hybridisation) to address concurrently different regions of a problem (e.g. electrically large and electrically small regions) or physical domains (e.g. electronic, photonic, thermal) and the availability to the Group of an advanced computer platform provided under the JREI 2000 programme offers the scope for major advances which will underpin the design of the advanced IT and communication systems of the future. The support provided will be used almost exclusively to support researchers involved in pursuing the major themes of ERG, initiating adventurous research, establishing international links and supporting the growing computational environment.